- Portrayed Adolf Hitler in nine different movies.
- Backstage talk has it that Bobby faced so much hostility on the set while made up as Hitler that he had to remain locked in his dressing room between takes.
- In 1942, at the age of 51, born November 28, in 1888, Bobby Watson's first appearance in a feature film role as an identical twin doe "Hollywood Adolf Hitler." Both actor Bobby Watson and Nazi Chancellor-Dictator Adolf Hitler, were the same age, born five months apart; Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889; deceased April 30, 1945. Hollywood's Bobby Watson - was first cast as Hitler in a Hal Roach Studio short subject called "The Devil With Hitler". Watson would again appear as the Nazi mega-maniac German Chancellor-leader Adolf Hitler in nine films all together, including the following: "Hitler - Dead or Alive" (1942), "Nazty Nuisance" (1943), "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944), "The Hitler Gang" (1944), "The Story of Mankind" (1957), "On the Double" (1961) and "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1962). "Performing to ridicule an Adolf Hitler was my ACE card in the 40s..." - was Bobby Watson's lead-in-line reminiscent of his theatrical casting film career during his friend Louise and her daughter Jane Norton's October, 1958 evening dinner party at their South Orange Grove Avenue, Los Angeles residence. Watson continued retelling his personal experience: "The Hollywood publicity department joined by the U.S. State Department, during the Second World War, concocted a proposed surprise international propaganda hoax in 1944 - that I was to be flown to England in an Army Air Force B-29, with the plane landing in London. I was to be in film make-up and dressed as Adolf Hitler in his military uniform and overcoat. Posing as Hitler, I was to exit the aircraft, descending the airport landing-runway's stair-way, for the news photo-op propaganda headline that Hitler had been captured by the Allied Forces! Another actor dressed as Mussolini, was to follow me down the gangway! When the proposed propaganda stunt was announced to me, I adamantly refused to participate! My life chance surviving the hoax was not guaranteed! Without a doubt the stunt would have leaked out, some nut-job would have a gun, shoot to kill. My return ticket - across the Atlantic pond would be in a wooden box".
- Comedian.
- Not to be confused with the US child actor Bobs Watson.
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